Entertainment & Reviews

On Saturday 5 September award-winning Flautist Leonie Stevenson-Jones, supported by soprano Victoria Armillotta, will be hosting an evening of light classical music to raise funds for local charity Rainbow Living.

Leonie will be accompanied by local composer and arranger Alfie Pugh, and Victoria by Anne Jones. The evening’s programme will include, amongst others, J.S Bach ‘Sonata in B minor’, Rutter ‘Waltz from ‘Suite Antique’, Telemann ‘Fantasie no.2 in A minor’, von Gluck ‘O del mio dolce ardor’ and Roger Quilter ‘Music, when soft voices die’,

The recital will take place...

Weekly rep continues at the Manor Pavilion Theatre in Sidmouth this week with the arrival of the ninth production of 2015, Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott.

The suspense thriller will play from Thursday 27 August to Wednesday 2 September 2015. The Summer Rep Season sees one company of actors present a season of twelve classic revivals throughout summer, with a new production each week until the end of September. Susie Hendrix is a blind housewife, who inadvertently becomes the target of three con-men. Unbeknownst to her, Susie's husband has become involved in drug smuggling and...

The winners who will each receive a family ticket are as follows:

1. Wayne Sanders 2. Alison Timmis 3. Stuart Payne 4. Darren Hannaford 5. Samantha Sugden 6. Sandra Tomkinson 7. Liz Adlem 8. Hayley Sanders 9. Vicky Spencer 10. Kristian Snooks

The competiton is now closed.

Big Air is the name of the game this summer as The Extreme Stunt Show flies into Exeter on Friday 28 August.... and The Exeter Daily has 10 family tickets to give away.

Full details of the event can be found here: http://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/entertainment-reviews-local-news-co...

Theatre Review of Wyrd Sisters by journalist Daniel Mumby.

ONE of the great pleasures of watching amateur dramatics is getting to see a group develop and refine its craft over a string of productions. While faces occasionally change and the chosen material often greatly varies, there is always the feeling of incremental progress, raising a bar that has already been set very high.

I felt this way when I sat in the Broadclyst Victory Hall last Friday evening, watching the village's theatre group tackle Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters with affection and aplomb. Having...